movies for radical queer d.i.y. film festival

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Entzaubert radical queer d.i.y. film festival 15-18 May 2008 in Berlin on a queer squatted truck site.

for the second time we will create a space for queer films, their
directors and their audience. for 4 days the open air belongs to films,
which question heteronormativity and capitalism, promote diversity and
deconstruction of socially accepted constructions.

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fwd: Anche a Torino: 8 MARZO di lotta!

Tra la festa, il rito e il silenzio, scegliamo la lotta!

Il 23 e 24 febbraio in più di 400, femministe e lesbiche, ci siamo incontrate a Roma per dare un seguito al percorso nazionale iniziato con la manifestazione del 24 novembre contro la violenza maschile sulle donne.
http://flat.noblogs.org

Oggi le sommosse di Torino (dlfto @ inventati. org) accolgono e rilanciano l’appello alla mobilitazione delle donne di Torino per l’autodeterminazione:

In questo clima di continui e generalizzati attacchi ai diritti delle donne e di precarizzazione della vita di native e migranti.

Scendiamo in piazza come in molte altre città 8marzo.jpg

Per l’autodeterminazione delle donne cioè libera scelta di decidere su ogni aspetto delle nostre vite
Contro ogni forma di violenza sulle donne
Contro l’eterosessualità obbligatoria e la violenza sulle lesbiche
Giù le mani dalla 194!
Libere di decidere su sessualità, maternità, contraccezione, aborto

SABATO 8 MARZO 2008
ORE 15,30
CORTEO
DA PIAZZA VITTORIO VENETO

Portiamo le nostre idee senza bandiere di partiti o sindacati!!!

http://femminismo-a-sud.noblogs.org/

call for artists : queer zagreb festival 2008

http:// www.queerzagreb.org
Zagreb, Croatia

Crime, Sexuality and Gender – Queer Zagreb, October 2008.

Queer Zagreb is an international festival which has been taking place in Croatia since 2003 and has been presenting international and local artists, academics and activists to an audience of cca 3000 – 5000 per year. Queer Zagreb festival constructs its programme each year around a certain theme which is presented throughout its programme. So far we have touched such issues as -postsocialist queer identity-, -heteronormativity of childhoods-, -transgression of private into public- and -Balkans queer-. For our 2008 edition the main topic of interest is -Crime, sexuality and gender- to be presented in different forms during the event – visual arts, performance, film and an academic conference.
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call for papers: GENDER & BORDERS/BOUNDARIES

Call for papers:
Please distribute widely

GENDER AND BORDERS/BOUNDARIES
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
At Manchester University
June 27, 2008

In association with Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies/ University of Leeds Migration and Diaspora Cultural Studies Network
Department of Theology and Religious Studies/University of Leeds Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies/University of Manchester

This one day postgraduate conference seeks to examine issues of gender and borders/boundaries across a range of critical perspectives. We want to encourage innovative and interdisciplinary dialogues and welcome postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines, such as anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, religion, sociology, psychology, politics, geography and social
work.
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“Stai pe ganduri? Nu, pe tocuri!”

de Doina

De vreo doua luni ma gandesc ca as avea ceva de spus in legatura cu violenta culturala. Este un concept destul de greu de explicat, cu toate ca suferim cu totii consecintele lui.

Specialistii spun ca fiecare cultura are propriile reguli si norme referitoare la comportamentele, atitudinile si credintele considerate ca fiind potrivite, diferentiind si etichetand nu persoane, ci categorii sociale. Cultura se manifesta prin prejudecatile pe care le avem – fata de femei si barbati, fata de romi, musulmani, atei, copii si soacre. Lucrurile pe care le facem intr-un anume fel pentru ca asa ni s-a transmis prin educatie, prin modelul social, prin faptul ca «toata lumea face/spune la fel». Si e mai simplu sa inghiti pe nemestecate o idee colectiva decat sa te apuci sa o diseci. Mda! Suna destul de complicat.

Dar hai s-o luam altfel! Daca v-as spune ca titlul – citat dintr-o reclama – constituie o forma de violenta culturala m-ati crede? O sa-mi spuneti ca n-ati simtit aceste efecte. O! Ba da! Aceasta fraza traseaza un profil feminin. Creeaza o imagine despre modelul femeii in subconstientul colectiv. In ciuda aparentei unei dulci ironii, pe care o poti privi amuzata, pentru ca esti convinsa ca nu te priveste, mesajul este: “femeile stau pe tocuri, deci nu gandesc”.

O sa ma intrebati, si ce pot face eu impotriva acestei violente? Sunt prea mic, prea singur, prea putin important ca sa pot face ceva in privinta asta. Si acesta este un stereotip cultural. Vi s-a inoculat ideea ca nu puteti face nimic. Ca nu depinde de dumneavoastra, si atunci n-are rost sa va implicati.

In ceea ce priveste reclama, nu stiu ce veti face voi. Eu voi ataca firma care transmite un mesaj nepotrivit, acolo unde pe cei cu putere de decizie ii doare: la buzunar. Prin urmare nu voi mai cumpara in vecii vecilor un produs de la o firma care imi spune ca nu gandesc pentru ca sunt ocupata cu statul pe tocuri, deci sunt femeie, recte proasta. Nici sampon si nici vreun alt produs.

Asta pentru simplul motiv ca sunt o persoana pasnica, adepta a metodelor non-violente de rezolvare a conflictelor.

Desi, dac-ar fi sa ma gandesc bine….

[“Dragoste fara griji”]

Dorinta mea de a pune in discutie violenta culturala nu a pornit de la o reclama. Reclama a fost doar catalizatorul.

Totul a inceput de la o statistica efectuata de un ONG care ajunsese la concluzia ca suntem pe primul loc in Uniunea Europeana… la avorturi. Continue reading

GEXcel Conference of Workshops – Örebro University 22-25 May 2008

Supported by a grant from the Swedish Research Council Centre, Örebro University and Linköpings University launched a project to establish a European Center of Gender Excellence based in Sweden– Gendering Excellence (GEXcel): Towards a European Centre of Excellence in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Gender Relations, Intersectionalities and Embodiment . In 2007-08, the theme of research sponsored by GEXcel has been “Gender, Sexuality, and Global Change,” directed by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Professor of Gender Studies at Örebro University. (For a full description of the theme, go to http://www.genderexcel.org)

We invite applications for this conference of workshops from junior and senior scholars whose research directly addresses one of the following three sub-themes: 1) Sexuality, Love and Social Theory; 2) Power and Politics: A Feminist View; and 3) Common and Conflicted: Rethinking Interest, Solidarity, and Action.

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Call for Papers: Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2008

Call for Papers: Queer Studies Easter Symposium 2008

23 March – 29 March, 2008
Mexico City

Deadline for submission of paper proposals: 15. November 2007

The International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS), AIDSinCULTURE.org and Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City invite the global community to a vibrant and exciting multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual and multi-cultural Queer Studies Easter Symposium in Mexico City in March 2008.

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